Competing Responsibilities: The Ethics and Politics of Contemporary Life
Susanna Trnka is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Auckland and coeditor of Senses and Citizenships: Embodying Political Life.
Catherine Trundle is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at Victoria University of Wellington and coeditor of Detachment: Essays on the Limits of Relational Thinking.
Susanna Trnka is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Auckland and coeditor of Senses and Citizenships: Embodying Political Life.
Catherine Trundle is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at Victoria University of Wellington and coeditor of Detachment: Essays on the Limits of Relational Thinking.
Justice and Its Doubles: Producing Postwar Responsibilities in Sierra Leone
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Published:March 2017
Rosalind Shaw, 2017. "Justice and Its Doubles: Producing Postwar Responsibilities in Sierra Leone", Competing Responsibilities: The Ethics and Politics of Contemporary Life, Susanna Trnka, Catherine Trundle
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Following a devastating civil war, in 2002 Sierra Leone became a laboratory for justice. For the first time, a truth and reconciliation commission (TRC) and a semi-international criminal court operated side by side. But in the context of eleven years of war, a thirty-year legacy of state violence, ongoing structural violence, and deeper memories of colonial rule and slave trades, this justice experiment generated a potentially dangerous doubling of the relationship among verbal testimony, responsibility, and accountability. I explore this doubling and its consequences through two widespread but marginalized forms of knowledge and practice that emerged in the Sierra Leone...
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